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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
of analysis that said, ... Look, it was a perfectly good business and things like that. But I saw Bob Iger at Disney doing things that we weren't going to do. And so, you know, like I observed somebody that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
insistence on more data and deeper analysis than had been the McKinsey norm. In the 1970s, he began touting the importance of strategic management for every kind of firm; eventually strategy consulting would become the core of McKinsey’s... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
making business decisions," observes Lecturer Thomas J. Kosnik, who teaches Entrepreneurial Marketing. "Entrepreneurial Marketing encourages students to embrace analysis and logic while remaining open to the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
When Business History Was Business News UTAH, 1859: East meets West and America opens for business. Henry Guttmann/Getty Images Newspapers, so the saying goes, write the first draft of history. In her new... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
tempered by substantial risks for businesses and investors looking to cash in on China’s economic renaissance. Over the course of the three-day Global Leadership Forum, twenty HBS faculty members and thirty U.S. and Chinese View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Jules Kortenhorst (MBA 1986) is CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a leading think tank focused on sustainability and energy use. It has become a go-to source of analysis... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
modeled after those on campus, is the new home for an expanding roster of Executive Education programs offered to Indian business leaders. Days after the official opening, seats filled with eager participants in a program titled Building... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
Groman said, "we are on the verge of an era in which quantitative analysis will fundamentally change the nature of marketing, much as it changed Wall Street in recent years. The 'quants' are coming to marketing, and marketing capital... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Lessons from Private Equity
GADIESH: To reap private equity returns, act more like a private equity manager COURTESY OF BAIN & CO A recent Harvard Business Review article headlined “If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business” gave many leaders of public companies a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
supply chain and its parallels to the business world. It was a long deployment; the fact that we didn’t experience a single loss of life is an awesome testament to the training and stamina of the crew. The ship is now in dry dock, and I’m... View Details
- 11 Oct 2012
- News
Answering the Doctor's Call
Downing: From business analysis to bedside diagnosis. Photo courtesy Bill Downing When Bill Downing (MBA 1995) started his first semester as a medical student in August, he finally closed the loop on a dream... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
To create breakthrough strategies, harness creativity to the scientific method
"Conventional strategic planning is not actually scientific," argues Jan W. Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration. "To produce novel strategies, teams need to adopt a step-by-step process in which creative... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
might suspect, very spirited meetings. If you have a proposal, walk into a room, and you know that eight people around the table are going to attack the analysis intellectually, cognitively, not attack the person who brought it, but just... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
destruction of natural habitats such as forests and wetlands. On the other hand, business is gradually beginning to make efforts to reverse those frightening trends by creating new processes, products, and paradigms that take the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
Photos by Webb Chappell Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
Photo Courtesy MATTHEW R. SIMMONS In his new book, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (John Wiley & Sons, 2005), Matthew Simmons (MBA ’67) sounds an alarm about a finite resource that he believes is running dry. Based on his View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
W50 Next Steps
experiences about relationships among women at work, with a particular focus on building effective, supportive collaborations across differences in race, generation, and geography. WHILE EXPANDED ANALYSIS continues and a new report is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
McCraw Wins Prize for Biography of Economist Joseph Schumpeter
way the book “skillfully connects Schumpeter’s landmark analysis of entrepreneurship to the history of modern business enterprise.” Schumpeter (1883–1950) taught at Harvard for twenty years and spent... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
its pipeline, Moderna had refined its development process—which begins with an analysis of a virus’s messenger RNA (mRNA)—and it had improved its production capabilities. Two months earlier, when he'd met NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Elevator Pitch: Good Vibrations
breakthrough-device designation from the FDA. This puts OsteoBoost on a fast track for approval following analysis of two clinical trials currently in progress, with a target launch date of early 2023. Heard: “I wanted to work on a big... View Details